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> If you think "unguided" means "I typed a prompt into claude code and waited yolo" I don't know what to say but, you have a very different idea of what professionals do than I do.

What exactly does "unguided" mean to you, then?

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Not having human input in the loop, i.e. allowing agents to act without guidance. I understand the idea of having agents guide agents, but really how much do we gain when Sol scolds Fable?

> how much do we gain when Sol scolds Fable?

You might be surprised at how much benefit you get from the model council[0] pattern.

The common pattern I've seen is "build with Claude, review with GPT", or vice-versa.

It's been proven to be very effective.

0: https://www.google.com/search?q=model+council+pattern&udm=14

I use it. We have more workstreams than people and so we have to rely on this pattern for most of our new products, but I still find the code doesn't meet my bar. To me it produces passable but not good, maintainable code. Good enough for our experimental products with the cognitive debt associated with heavy agentic development. We take this calculated tradeoff of velocity for cognitive debt and middling quality because we're a startup and we feel that velocity matters more than correctness, but that is just a bet as the nature of startups go.

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